Lots of great nuggets about the New York Times and Washington, D.C. in Joe Hagan’s profile about Bill Keller in New York Magazine.
They include:
The pressure to “embolden the paper’s Washington bureau, which under the leadership of Philip Taubman…has been considered weak and uneven.”The “‘icky, demoralized time'” that was the Judy Miller saga.How Keller and Jill Abramson decided before Miller even went to jail that she’d never write for the Times again.The drama that unfolded over James Risen’s NSA eavesdropping story, including how Risen may have thought “Taubman lacked the ‘balls’ to publish his scoop.”How the Times’ “Washington coverage was where the Times would be historicaly measured….The
